Josh Charles Quotes
Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
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My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.
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I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.
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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
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Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.
